Uttarakhand police swooping down on the absconders from other States hiding here, three such fugitives, two from Bihar and one from Uttar Pradesh have been arrested in a span of less than one month. And both the arrests were made by Pauri police.
The latest such arrest occurred on Sunday as Pauri police in course of vehicle checking drive nabbed a person from Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh accused of killing his married sister’s paramour on April 5. The accused Amlesh was said to be absconding from one place to another before he was finally arrested by Pauri police.
In a similar incident on March 15, Pauri police had arrested the father- son duo, accused of an attempted rape case, who had been absconding from Bihar since the special judge court based in Bihar issued warrants against them. Notably, Nikhil Priyadarshi , the son, was an accused of an attempted rape case involving a daughter of a former minister of Bihar while the father was an accused too for allegedly threatening the survivor of consequences.
In the latest incident, laxmanjhula police arrested Amlesh who had been absconding for the past five days from Saamli. Pauri senior superintendent of police Mukhtar Mohsin said that while on vehicle checking drive at Garurchatti Barrier, laxmanjhula police team stopped a car going to Neelkanth with two people, including the driver, in it. As the police personnel demanded the vehicle documents to be shown to them the person sitting in the front seat tried to flee.
Interrogation revealed that the person arrested was Amlesh, resident of Unn, thana Jhijhana, district Shamli UP, who is an accused of a murder case. It was further learnt that he had murdered his married sister’s paramour Bunty with the assistance of his father Rajkumar and brother Vikelseh on April 5.